Kristi Belcamino works as a weekend reporter at the Pioneer Press. Her first reporting job was at the White Bear Press. After working as a police reporter at the Contra Costa Times in the San Francisco Bay Area, she moved back to Minnesota. She has worked at the Pioneer Press since 2013.

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